Buckinghamshire based GFW looking for harvest job - South of England
BTEC
Mixed Farming
Undergradaute Certificate in Agricultural Studies
Full Car Licence
Tractor, Telehandler/Fork Lift
Dairy, Beef, Sheep, Lambing
2 years harvest running Claas 830 Axion Hexashift with 20T+ trailers (dual axle Broughans with silage sides modified for grain)
Additionally: Tedding, Raking, Topping, Muck spreading, bale carting and some general loader work where required (Scorpion)
Have some experience with John Deere old and new but would need a quick refresher
Starting out as a contract lamber
4 years lambing including 2 big estates with 2000-2800+ ewes, Wales and Shetland
Month work experience at a Arla demonstration dairy
Tb Testing and spring-summer sheep work at Harvest job
Male
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20
Single
United Kingdom
Buckinghamshire
English
Yes
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510 80kg
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*Jobs*
Harvest worker 2024 & 2025
Claas and John Deere tractors
Lexion Montana 2024, CR9.90 2025
Supported pre and post harvest, majority of the job was maintenance around the season, every day was different.
Lambing Assistant
Warwickshire
March 2023 to March 2023
March 2024 to March 2024
2 Weeks. 07:30 - end (usually between 17:30 and 19:30)
Worked days and a couple night shifts. I would feed and bed down the ewes in the morning/evenings and perform checks around each of the 3 sheds - assisting where ever required and then housing the ewe and lamb when ready.
Lambing assistant
Downton Estate - Herefordshire
March-April 2024, 2025, 2026
3 week lambing job
Worked 12 hour shifts on days (24&25)
1st year Managed a shed with roughly 600-700 ewes in - regular lambing duties (jabbing, lambing, penning, turning out etc)
2nd year same shed with 800 Shearlings (Gimmers).
3rd year I was asked to go on nights after the night lambers ran away mid shift on the first night.
Worked with a range of people who could come and help out when they could but if there was a gap between Id do the nights alone.
Middle Sylfaen - Welshpool
Jan-Feb
300 ewes, split shift 7am-1pm&4pm-12pm+-
Nights were alone, day shift most of the time was spent turning out.
They were on point with tubing so I got very good at that.
Houstercroft - Shetland
April-may, 500 ewes indoors
A month total with 3 weeks being nights and one week being day shifts after numbers depleted
Night shifts were alone
Day shifts were spent helping out feeding the outdoor ewes
**Work experience**
Dairy Farm Worker
Buckinghamshire
October 2022 to December 2022
Work experience as a part of my college course. 07:30-17:00.
Roughly 500 Holsteins and a 20-a-side parlour. I would milk from 12:00 onwards.
Farm Worker
Buckinghamshire
February 2022 to April 2022
Work experience as a part of my college course. 08:00 - 16:00.
This was a small-mid sized beef, pigs and poultry farm. I would help out by feeding and watering the youngstock and poultry and then scrape out the cattle shed in the farms old Massey 375.
Farm worker
Buckinghamshire
March 2023 - May 2023
Work experience as a part of my college course 08:00-17:00.
Completed general estate jobs as well as routine tractor work such as topping and cultivating with their John Deere 6800.
Start: 29/05/2026 Finish: Not Specified
London & Thames
Temporary
Mixed farm with opportunities to gain a range of experience